I was addicted to The Mission soundtrack during university. I wonder if it holds up. Is Tubular Bells the Exorcist score, or is it just music used a little in the movie?

The Princess Bride is almost all instrumental (love song over the credits), and I adore it. And I have some iteration of the !Blade Runner music too, which I quiet enjoy. The Big Blue is marvellous, except for the one track with the dialogue clips for the movie.

Taste caveat: I adore the PotC soundtrack, and listen to it multiple times a week. It's entrancing and easy.

Naked Lunch

"I can think of two things that are wrong with that title." t /Nelson

Hmm, instrumental scores I've bought: Get Shorty, Ravenous and Crash are the only ones I can think of on CD off the top of my head. I've got a few more on vinyl.

Plus a whole bunch of song-compilation soundtracks in both formats.

I know that some are all emotion, others are all spectacle, but Titanic seemed to do both and I appreciate that.

The part that always gets me is a background bit, where a family from steerage is trying to decipher the signs that point to the boat deck, and Dad has the translation book and is trying to be calm and help his family. Then I remember how few people from Steerage made it off, and it makes me want to just curl up.

Is Tubular Bells the Exorcist score, or is it just music used a little in the movie?

There is a whole album called Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfield, but I don't know if it was pre or post movie.

There is a whole album called Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfield

::imdbs::

Okay, Mike's credited under Non-Original Music.

Okay -- so I scratch that from my owned score/soundtrack list.

There is a whole album called Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfield, but I don't know if it was pre or post movie.

Pre-movie, I think, but--Mike Oldfield!!! The Tubular Bells albums kick all sorts of butt. There's an orchestral version of the original album, then a 2nd Tubular Bells album, which has a guest stint for Alan Rickman doing a bit of narration. The credit lists "Wandering Player".

The part that always gets me is a background bit, where a family from steerage is trying to decipher the signs that point to the boat deck, and Dad has the translation book and is trying to be calm and help his family. Then I remember how few people from Steerage made it off, and it makes me want to just curl up.

Seriously, it's all the background bits that kill me. When the old couple clutches each other in bed, as the water rushes in. When the Mom in steerage recites Winken, Blinken, and Nod to her kids, trying to get them to sleep. Those are the parts that really just make me sob.

Then I remember how few people from Steerage made it off, and it makes me want to just curl up.

I also get sad when the mom is telling her kids the story of Tiernan-Ogg while the ship is going down. It must have been very hard for third class parents to keep a brave facade while accepting their fate and not scaring their kids.

Those are the parts that really just make me sob.

That's why I never made it through the movie.

Not because Alibelle's crying, silly, but because the real story of Titanic is sufficiently upsetting that a romance tacked on front irritates me. Now, I wouldn't go see a dramatisation of it either. I can honestly make do with documentaries and imagination.